Banbridge District Council endeavours to safeguard the privacy of any individual who visits this website or submits information via this website. When you provide information from which you can be personally identified, this information is protected by the Data Protection Act 1998. Under the Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information that is provided by you. Therefore, we take measures to safeguard your data and apply security standards and controls to prevent any unauthorised access to it. As a result, this website does not store any personal information about individuals who access this website except where they voluntarily choose to provide their personal details.

Information Collected
In some sections, we may ask you to register your name and email address. We will also collect information from you if you complete any other forms on our site or if you contact us with comments or specific requests. This website automatically logs some information about visitors to the site (such as IP address) and some pages may also use cookies to store personalisation details for certain areas of the site. This information is held purely for system administration purposes. It does not enable us to find out your name or any other personal information. These cookies help us to improve the navigation menus used in the website, and to make sure that our pages are as up-to-date as possible. We will not collect any information about you except that required for the operation of the website.

Personal Information Usage
If you choose to complete any of our online forms, we will not use the personal information you provide us with for marketing purposes. We will use the information you provide us with to reply or process that specific request only.

Email Messages
You may receive occasional email messages from us on matters that we consider may be of interest to you. However, you will only receive these if you have provided your email address to us for this purpose.

Security
It must be noted that sending an email or submitting information via online cannot be made totally secure and, despite the Council using all reasonable endeavours to protect personal data and/or information, the Council cannot warrant any degree of security.